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Patented Sept. 25, 1894.

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` being extended in the formpf crossing plates and receiving the jawsiofthe pliers; and in p j my application, Serial No. 504,129, led March thesame sheet metal, with flanges that are i continuations of the plate iat the handles and at the jawsbears in givabout the pivot and cause thenotched ins ment in Cutting-Pliers, ot whi'c'h\3he follow- UNITED STATESPATENT i OFFICE. ,j

WILLIAM A. BERNARD, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE `WM.SCHOLLHORN COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

CUTTING-Fuses.

` S2EGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 526,480, datedSeptember 25, 1894.

Application filed March 26, 1894.

To @ZZ whom t may concern/,.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. BERNARD, a citizen ofthe United States,residing at New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State ofConnecticut, have invented an Improveing is a specification.

In Letters `Patent Ng427,220, granted to me May 6, 1890, pliers"are\repres`ented with handles made of sheet metal, the metal sheet 19,1894, similar handles are represented, and crossing plates 'and the jawsformed of portions that cross each other and are pivoted. l s j j Pliershave also been made in which disks with notched edges have been appliedadjacent to each other and moved by the handles of the pliers upon thesame pivot upon which the jaws and handles of the pliers swing, suchdisks being received into recesses in the metal adjacent to the pivot ofthe crossing handles in the pliers. j

In my present invention I adapt the cutting disks to the sheet `metalpliers by providing extensions from the i cutting disks against whichthe sheet metal of the pliers ing motion to the disks to revolve themclined cutting edges to pass separating the wire. i j

In the drawings, Figure l is an elevation of the pliers partially insection. Fig. `2 is an edge view of the disks and of the pliers.

The handles A and B of the pliers are made of sheet metal stamped up,and the dat plate portions 2 cross each other and are pivoted togetherby the bolt or rivet D, and the jaw portions `are integral with the re-`spective handles, the jaws C having flanges 6 behind their edges, whichflanges are continuations of the iiat plate portions 2 that cross eachother at the pivot.

The two cutting disks E E are of a thickness adapted to pass in betweenthe inner two crossing plates of the handles at the pivot, and suchcutting disks are pressed toward each other, preferably by tightening byeach other in Serial No. 505,038. (No model.)

are inclined notches 7 forming the cutters similar to the cuttingnotches in disks that have heretofore been made use of. I howeverprovide on each disk arms 8 and 9 that project outwardly from the edgesof the disks, the arms 8 of the respective disks setting within andbehind the jaws, and the arms 9 ofthe respective disks setting withinthe respective handles and bearing against the inner surfaces 0f thesheet metal of the handles. Thereby the arms 9 become levers to thedisks to rotate the same when the cutting of the wire `is eiected, andthe arms 48 are acted upon by the jaws as the pliers are opened and tendto rotate the disks so as to bring the notches into line with each otherfor the reception of the wire or other material to be cut; and byproperly shaping the respective parts, looseness of the respective disksin relation to the crossing handles is avoided, and the cutting pliersare rendered very efficient and `they can be sharpened from time to timeby separating the disks from the pliers and grinding them Vin anyconvenient manner. j

I claim as my invention- 1. The combination with the sheet metal pliers`stamped up to form hollow handles with crossing plates at the pivots andwith jaws, of cutting disksintroduced between `the platesthat cross eachother at the pivots,

each disk having an inclined notch forming a cuttingedge, and an armextending within one of thehandles and-` forming a lever by` which thedisk is rotated, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination with the sheet metal pliers stamped up to form hollowhandles with crossing plates at the pivots and with jaws, of cuttingdisks introduced between the plates that cross each other at the pivots,each disk having an inclined notch forming a cutting edge, and an armextending within one of the handles and forming a lever -by which thedisk is rotated, and a second arm at the back of the jaw for givingmotion to the disk in rotating the same with the jaw on the pivot,substantially `as set forth.

Signed by me this 16th dayof March, 1894.

` WILLIAM A. BERNARD.

Witnesses:

.GEORGE R. CooLEY,

C. E. WINGETT.

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